The narrative transitions into the events of the first film, following Don Vito Corleone as he leads the family through a brutal gang war after World War II.
The story begins with a young Vito Andolini's escape from Sicily and his subsequent rise in New York's Little Italy, originally shown as flashbacks in the second film. the godfather trilogy: 1901-1980
Michael Corleone does not die then. That would be mercy. The narrative transitions into the events of the
His Sicilian exile, his marriage to the innocent Apollonia, her death by car bomb meant for him—these are the Stations of the Cross for a man becoming a monster. By the time he returns to America, the gentle boy is gone. He becomes the Don after his father’s heart attack, and at his nephew’s baptism, he renounces Satan while his men execute the heads of the Five Families. That would be mercy